Why can God not be worshiped in a miriad of ways? How con anyone have the audacity to say they know the limits of God? Could not God have directed different cultures to worship him/her in ways that flowed freely with that culture? If you as a mortal put limits on God does that mean God has limits?
2007-07-23 10:29:39 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Great question I am starring!
I agree. I think many people find many ways to God. For 'people' to assume they know the only true way is arrogant and ignorant.
Thanks!
2007-07-23 10:31:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Whats to worship? Not having a mortal brain or ego, if there is a god, "it " has no emotional requirements, including humans lighting candles, burning incense, bowing, kneeling, flagellating themselves or one another, davening, whirling and spinning, or arm waving. Whatever fancies or limits we choose to put to the creative source is of our own making. Despite countless religions, cults. and philosophies, no one truly has any idea what we humans came from, or where ( if anywhere) we are going after death. Faith is just a word for a feeling. So, "omnipresent" I don't know,except through being present for one another,but I believe its important for us to be good to ourselves and others for the little while we are here. That's all.
2007-07-23 11:17:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The problem is that in the Bible God reveals much about himself in very specific and concrete terms and tells us to believe him--that he alone is God and that we need to beware of anyone who would come along and preach that God is any different than he has revealed himself to be in the Bible. So Christians can't believe the Bible and also accept that God may have revealed himself differently to other cultures.
That is not to say that Christians everywhere worship God in the same way. We are told to worship "in Spirit and in Truth" and we do so in a myriad of ways, but we do not worship him as any other than the One True God. We cannot, for instance, call him "Allah" and claim to worship the same God, since Allah is not described in the same way and with the same characteristics as God.
We cannot believe the Bible and at the same time accept all other religions and their gods as worshiping the same God. It is not because we are arrogant, but because we believe God and are reverent of him and his power and holiness.
2007-07-23 10:42:34 · answer #3 · answered by happygirl 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only God Knows His limits.
2007-07-23 10:35:33 · answer #4 · answered by spir_i_tual 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No it means man is capable of taking anything even the greatest thing of all and twisting it all around. God is everywhere and he can be worshipped in many ways, it happens all the time. God has no limits so whoever told you that pray for them would be my best advice.
2007-07-23 10:34:09 · answer #5 · answered by ohioguy4jc 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Different cultures? Certainly! In the Church Christ founded for all mankind, the Catholic Church, there is great cultural diversity and many traditions of worship, but all within the context of unity in doctrinal belief, unity in teaching, unity of authority, and unity in the essence of worship, the Mass. God doesn't mind being worshipped in multiple ways. What He minds is untruth. That's why denominationalism cannot be within God's will, because it involves not just diversity of worship, but diversity of beliefs, many of which contradict one another. Conflicting beliefs necessarily mean false beliefs, because truth cannot conflict with truth. So, God surely accepts cultural diversity, but He rejects the formation of churches other than the one He personally founded for all mankind.
2007-07-23 10:53:20 · answer #6 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
when God created the sixth day men and women and said "be fruitful and multiply upon the face of the earth" he did give many ways to worship him. Native Americans always say? The Creator. at that point there was no need for the messiah and judaic laws and ways of worship as handed down. believe as you will. freewill for all souls.
2007-07-23 10:32:59 · answer #7 · answered by pissdownsatansback 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i as God am sitting in front of my computer and answering a question of God who is sitting in front of your computer while thousands of others are sitting in front of theirs and another 6 billion are walking,sitting,sleeping etc , and that is only on earth , what about the rest of the universe. all religions worship him only the christian religion is the most judgemental followd by islam that are fighting amongst each other and have no respect for Gods creation god means Great OrderDevine. it is human thoughts that want to put him in a box
the true followers of Jesus worship God in truth and in spirit , not every tom dick and harry that call themselves christians
2007-07-23 10:39:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
John 4:23
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
John 4:22-24
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
John 4:23-25
2007-07-23 10:35:55 · answer #9 · answered by sego lily 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The paradoxical question is: Can God make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it?
And if you're assumption was right, do all the iterations of the holy text, Bible, Torah, Koran, etc. all have it right or is it just a human interpretation.
I'm sorry to tell you, if there is a "God", then no one religion has it right.
2007-07-23 10:32:58 · answer #10 · answered by sam l 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God puts limits on himself. If God says that there is only one way to worship him, then how can mankind argue back to him?
God has the right to dictate terms; that is what it means to be God.
2007-07-23 10:33:17 · answer #11 · answered by Randy G 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋